I pity the babies whose mothers are busy texting trivialities instead of playing with their children; I pity the children who are tethered to their cell phones instead of playing ball; I pity the adolescents who are wasting their best years holding one of those artefacts instead of the hand of another young person.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

I believe that modern science supports free will, in showing that the brain can act spontaneously, not only in response to external stimuli.

Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.

There is a continuum between science and philosophy. As Fichte said (but did not practice), philosophy should be the science of sciences.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.